Tags
| Ok. So, Here are my tag books 1. One book that changed your life: Three Philosophies of Life by Peter Kreeft 2. One book you have read more than once: Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien 3. One book you would want on a desert island The Bible (lot's of things I would like to read, but if you're on a desert island ... better at least start preparing for the possibility of the end as best you can) 4. One book that made you laugh: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 5. One book that made you cry: My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok (Also falls into the category of "read more than once," and The Chosen by CP also fits the "made cry" slot) 6. One book you wish had been written: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Choices M. Brett Kendall Should Make in His Life (With Foolproof Diagrams of Exactly When, Where and How ... Because He Needs Them) by God 7. One book you wish had never been written: I'm going to have to echoe Travis on this one ... some things are, at best, completely and utterly, banally pointless. 8. One book you are currently reading: Finding God in Harry Potter by John Granger (I'm working on it folks, but keep taking breaks to listen drive and sleep and pack ... but I am listening to audio from Lumos while I pack ... and I have never really done/can't really do the "2 books at once" thing except for classes of course ... so for me the "one book" is kind of repetetive) 9. One book you have been meaning to read: Ummm ... have to choose one eh? Story as Torah by Gordon Wenham (actually this category is a huge list of stuff I have bought, know I need, and want, to read but just haven't gotten around to it ... a number by John Levenson) 10. I'll leave Pauli's Tags as they stand since Travis tagged us as a collective PS I do have one question, on Angela's Ashes: is there another book of similar name, a novel that is pretty harsh on the Catholic Church in Ireland or something like that? Or is that the book? (whichever the book, I'm pretty sure a movie was made of it). Just curious ... different things float through the perifery of the duder's mind at times and he doesn't always register all of them fully |
Comments on "Tags"
-
Merlin said ... (August 02, 2006 2:25 PM)
:
-
jkr2 said ... (August 02, 2006 5:29 PM)
:
-
Merlin said ... (August 02, 2006 6:06 PM)
:
-
Anonymous said ... (August 02, 2006 9:47 PM)
:
-
Pauli said ... (August 03, 2006 8:32 AM)
:
post a commentOne question that is asked of the duder by his nieces and nephews, the children of his friend Nathan, is "Uncle Brett, why do you keep refering to yourself in the third person?" and he has to reply "Uncle Brett doesn't know really."
LOL
you're such a dag, merlin.
(that's said in the aussie affectionate way).
re 'angela's ashes'. it could be that book. i read it and didn't take it as being *about* how awful is the irish catholic church, however it documents the very sad and tragic life of a very poor family in ireland, and at times they don't have the best experience with members/ leaders from the church.
sounds like it may be the same book, not sure ... like I said, many things float through on the sidelines (or to quote Robyn Hitchcock, "some things come in some things go out, and next time round I'll be a trout")
I think the two that floated through on this one (if they be the same book) was one friend describing a scene from the movie that could be more "shock value" (some scene involving a church wall I think ... well, actually I do know the specifics of what this friend said was the content of the movie scene, but wouldn't be appropriate here)and then a friend's brother gave them a novel that that movie was from and there was what seemed to be a pretty well founded suspicion that it was the kind of thing of "a lot of Catholics don't realize how bad things are that the Catholic Church does, and a book like this will probably help them realize how the Catholic Church is not necessarily the best place to be" ... I think the brother said they had been going over the book in a Bible Study
(In the tradition Pauli and I came from converting to Catholicism was tantamount to cutting yourself off from Christ altogether, at least by their official teachings, and this particular brother is decidedly NOT of the branch that views things that way, in other words, it was never viewed as a beligerent thing or a subversive thing when he gave the book to the friend, more of just a "going with the flow" at that particular point in a particular Bible study group ... as far as I know the book has collected dust and many other things have "arose, ensued, and were overcome" since then ... and all that is really remembered is "that sounds familiar ...was that that book that ... um ... what was it happened again?" ... for some reason though, the name "Agnes' Ashes" seems to resonate more with me but I just checked IMDB and it doesn't show that but does show Angela's Ashes ... so I guess that must be the one)
Angela's Ashes is a memoir, not a novel although a case could be made that it's embellished.
I agree with JKR2 that Angela's Ashes is not "about" the big, bad Catholic Church although being set in Limerick in the 1930's and 1940's, Catholicism is ingrained in the culture so it's mentioned a lot.
But young Frank McCourt meets inspiring schoolteachers and terrible, cruel schoolteachers, good priests and nuns and pompous priests and sacristans. Adults were a mixed bag in this book.
Frank had a defeated Irish Catholic mother and an alcoholic Northern Irish Protestant father who couldn't keep a job, and their children suffered in many ways because of the family's situation.
I never saw the movie, but it wouldn't surprise me if the bits that put the Church in the worst light were highlighted.
I didn't read the book, just watched part of the movie. We had to turn it off; my wife was pregnant and it was just too much with all the kids dying.
One of my doctors read the book -- he's Catholic and he loved it. I was irritated by the portrayal of religion in the movie, but my guess is that it was more Hollywood's doing than the original author.